Robert Zemeckis

Director

1952-05-14

Quotes by Robert Zemeckis

• We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.

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• You can't legislate sobriety.

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• I grew up on Chicago's South Side in a working-poor family, so I watched everything on television. It was like my window on the world. But we also went to the movies pretty regularly - mostly on Tuesdays, because that was Ladies Night, and my mom could get in for free.

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• We have this sort of tacit censorship, which is the ratings system, and it's directly tied to box office, so it is censorship. Like, if you make an R-rated movie, you know that only a certain amount of people are going to go see it under any circumstance.

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• Most actors that I work with are wonderful. Jodie Foster or Tom Hanks will make anything work.

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• USC Film School always had a real sense of drama and lineage.

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